Love Decorating Your House With Ceramics? You May Be Raising Your Risk Of Developing Cancer

Are you fan of decorating your home with objects intricately with the use of ceramics? Well, as beautiful as they may be ceramics were found to be loaded with a high level of cadmium, which can raise your risk of developing cancer, claimed the researchers of a recent study that was conducted on it.

It’s the cadmium that is typically used to give products the bright pigment that is yellow, red or orange in texture. But the cadmium doesn’t stay stuck the same way you bought it, it starts to wither off. But where does it wither off to?

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If you haven’t guessed it yet, it withers off and falls into the your environment raising the risk of cancer.

The findings, led by the University of Plymouth in the UK, showed that cadmium was also found in everyday household products like second-hand plastic toys, drinking glasses, reported IANS.

The highest readings of up to 70,000 ppm were recorded on the enamels of old and new drinking glasses and bottles, with cadmium detected in about 70 per cent of the 197 logos, patterns, text, pictures and cartoons tested on 72 products, the researchers revealed in the paper published in the journal Science of the Total Environment.

While the surfaces of common items were covered with more than the recommended levels of cadmium (50 to 800 parts per million (ppm)).

"If you asked most people about cadmium, they would probably know very little about it. But it is listed among the World Health Organisation's 10 chemicals of major public health concern, alongside substances such as lead and asbestos," said Andrew Turner, Associate Professor from the varsity.

"The health risk depends on how easily the cadmium can flake off or leach out. Additional tests performed indicate that this is greatest for enamelled glassware," said Turner.

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The study also revealed that cadmium has also been found in ceramic items, such as mugs, plates and bowls, with the greatest recorded level being 40,000 ppm and other plastic products, such as toys including a maximum of 35,000 ppm.